'The truth is a little more complicated – and a lot more clichéd – than that. So, here it is. I took up baking'

"...there was a period during March of last year where I put on an apron and took out the kitchen scales every day..."

Louise O'Neill

I am weary of people asking me what I ‘learned’ during lockdown. Nothing, I want to reply sullenly. I am surviving it. 

What more could we ask of ourselves during a global pandemic? But the truth is a little more complicated – and a lot more clichéd – than that. So, here it is. I took up baking. Clearly, as the national flour shortage during the first lockdown would suggest, I wasn’t the only one. I didn’t resort to sourdough starters, I’m not a total monster.